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Y'Garon[edit]
Y'Garonis a demon who has clashed withMarada the She-WolfandDracula.
Yandroth[edit]
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Yandroth was the humanoid Scientist Supreme of the "otherdimensional"planet" Yann "and a would-be-conqueror who, with his robot Voltorg, has foughtDoctor Strangeas a counterpart to the latter's title of Sorcerer Supreme. Doctor Strange defeats Yandroth, sending him to seemingly fall forever through an alternate dimension, the Dimension of Dreams.[1]
There, he gains great magical knowledge and learns that he could gain great power by destroying a world. He returns to Earth and constructs an "Omegatron", although he suffers injuries received when he was hit by a truck in New York City. His physical body dies, thus activating the Omegatron. As the Omegatron, he battles Doctor Strange,Namor,and theHulk,who come together as theDefendersfor the first time. Yandroth is placed under a time displacement spell by Doctor Strange.[2]
The Omegatron is eventually released from the time displacement spell and battled Namor, the Hulk,Valkyrie,andNamoritaand was destroyed.[3]Yandroth's spirit next possesses a young female chemist to telepathically attack the heroes; however, he is defeated by the Defenders again.[4]
Although Yandroth is dead, his spirit is still capable of taking possession of a living human's mind. Taking the form of a vagrant, he is discovered byPatsy Walker.Seemingly an innocent, she rescues him, allowing him to regain his strength and capture her. He becomes a nihilist and crafts a plan to end the world. He summons monsters from all over like Negative Zone Borers, Mindless Ones, Toad Men, Dark-Crawler,Quasimodo,Warlord Kaa and his Shadow Warriors, Living Erasers,Gorgilla,Vi-Locks, and the Lizard Men of Tok. This attack involved many superhero teams. Most of theNew York-based heroes are tied up confronting destructive, mindless monstrosities.Alpha Flightis attacked by Warlord Kaa and his Shadow Warriors. Yandroth causes a group of Living Erasers to appear in the Tokyo Headquarters ofBig Hero 6.Lizard Men from Tok attack the island nation ofGenosha.Gorgilla subdues theAvengersby dropping a building on them. It turns out he is utilizing the captured form of Gaea, the spirit of the Earth, to summon the monsters. Patsy, who had escaped and learned this, tells the Defenders, who were currently comprisingNamor,Hulk,Doctor Strange, andSilver Surfer.The superheroes battles Yandroth has caused has given him enough power to summon the Ravagers of Creation. Four elemental creatures confront the Defenders, who are unable to stop them individually. They attack the Stone creature, disabling the spell needed to destroy the world. This frees Gaea and kills Yandroth. In his dying breath as the Hulk and Namor fight, he realizes theDefendershate each other. Yandroth uses his powers to curse the four original members so that they must come and work together in times of a severe crisis. This involves uncontrollable teleportation, affecting all four of the heroes.[5]Yandroth's curse caused the Defenders to work together against a plot byLoreleiandPluto.[6]The curse that Yandroth placed on the four original members of the Defenders was also tied to Yann and adding into Yandroth's powers.[7]
When the four Defenders members becameThe Orderfor a short time, their curse started to cause Yandroth to slowly reform.[8]He started to slowly materialize in smoky form above a throne.[9]Yandroth then began to materialize in an all-powerful mist-like form. When he was denied of the final power he needed when the Order wouldn't attack him, Yandroth regressed to human form as Christopher Ganyrog took Yandroth back to Yann to stand trial for his crimes.[10]
Yandroth is featured in the limited series "The Last Defenders", disguised as a businessman after he escaped, killed the Ganyrogs, and took over Yann. Assisted by the floating head of the entity known as the "Recorder", he attempts to manipulate his way into gaining god-level powers.Nighthawk,Colossus,Blazing SkullShe-Hulk,andWarlord Krangbattle the group theSons of the Serpentwhich culminates in a confrontation with Yandroth. Yandroth manipulates time and forces Nighthawk to battle a twisted version of his old team theSquadron Sinisterbefore being rescued by a future incarnation of the Defenders, who with Yandroth disappear once the threat is over.[11]
Mariko Yashida[edit]
Shingen Yashida[edit]
Yellow Claw[edit]
Yellowjacket[edit]
Hank Pym[edit]
Rita DeMara[edit]
Darren Cross[edit]
Yeti[edit]
Inhuman[edit]
This Yeti, anInhumanmutated by theTerrigen Mist,[12]was created byStan LeeandJack Kirbyand first appeared inFantastic Four#99.
The character joins the superhero team First Line,[13]but leaves after losing control during a fight, and lives in a temple in the Himalayas for a period.[14][15]While looking forCrystal,theHuman Torchencounters Yeti and, startled by his appearance, attacks him. Yeti runs from the Torch's attack and tells the other Inhumans that they are under attack.[12]
Yeti has inhuman strength and razor-sharp claws and teeth. He is easily angered and suffers from bouts of insanity. His savage, animal nature during these bouts makes him almost unbeatable.
Weapon P.R.I.M.E.[edit]
This Yeti is a member of the covert Canadian superhuman groupWeapon P.R.I.M.E.,and has foughtX-Forceand theAlpha FlightmemberNorthstar.He has superhuman strength, claws, and an enhanced healing factor.[volume & issue needed]
Other versions of Yeti[edit]
In theAge of Apocalypsereality, Yeti appears as a member of theBrotherhood of Chaos.[volume & issue needed]
Ho Yinsen[edit]
| Ho Yinsen | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Tales of Suspense#39 (March 1963) |
| Created by | Stan Lee(writer) Larry Lieber(scripter) Don Heck(artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Supporting character of | Iron Man |
| Abilities | Genius-levelintelligence |
Professor Ho Yinsenis a supporting character ofIron Manin theMarvel Comicsuniverse.The character, created byStan Lee,Larry LieberandDon Heck,first appeared inTales of Suspense#39 (March 1963).
Original plotline[edit]
Professor Yinsen was aphysicist,engineerandpacifistfrom the fictional nation of Timbetpal;[16]while Tony Stark was incollege,Stark had greatly admired the older man's work. In his old age, Yinsen was captured inVietnamby theCommunistwarlordWong-ChubeforeAmericanarms manufacturerand engineerTony Starkwas also captured. Stark's US military convoy had tripped aland mineand he was injured withshrapnelthat was slowly moving toward hisheart.Yinsen builds amagneticchest plate and affixes it to Stark's chest, thus preventing the shrapnel from reaching his heart, thereby saving Stark's life and keeping him alive. Wong-Chu then orders Yinsen and Stark to buildweaponsfor him. Instead, Yinsen helps Stark secretly build the firstIron Man armor,which includes a device for Stark's heart to keep him alive. Yinsen sacrifices his life distracting Wong-Chu to buy time for Stark to power up his armor. Stark dons the armor, becomingIron Man,and defeats Wong-Chu, apparently killing him in the explosion of munitions shed, before freeing all other prisoners.[17]
Twelve of Wong-Chu's former prisoners were disciples of Yinsen; one of these disciples (Sun-Tao) leads them to establish a quasi-religiouscultcalled the Sons of Yinsen. The Sons of Yinsen develop very advanced technology from notes in Yinsen's journal that he had written before his death; they use this technology to create the apparentutopiaof New Timbetpal, a floating, ambulatory, usually-cloakedcity in the sky. It is revealed that Wong-Chu survived the munitions shed explosion and that Yinsen'sbrainwas preserved alive, salvaged by an interdimensional merchant called Doctor Midas. Midas sold Yinsen's brain in anauctionto Wong-Chu. Iron Man, driven by his own guilt that he never looked for Yinsen himself, simply assuming that his friend had been killed while focusing on his own escape, helps the Sons of Yinsen defeat Wong-Chu, who isbeheadedby one of the Sons of Yinsen, and recover Yinsen's brain.[18]
The Sons of Yinsen attempt toresurrectProfessor Yinsen by placing his brain inside asentientIron Man armor, which is actually underUltron's control. Falsely believing Ultron to be Yinsen resurrected, the Sons of Yinsen follow directives toward planning for a war; only Sun-Tao refuses to obey, for which he is displaced as leader of the Sons of Yinsen by a man named Tyger Minn. Ultron leads the Sons of Yinsen to reveal themselves to the public and establish the Church of Yinsen. Sun-Tao recovers Yinsen's brain, and then Iron Man, Sun-Tao, andJocastawork together to defeat Ultron and the Sons of Yinsen and free Ultron's prisoner Antigone. Ultron attempts to blow up the floating city of the Sons of Yinsen to kill all of them as well as Iron Man; however, the sentient armor has apparently absorbed enough of the thoughts of Yinsen that part of it acts to save Iron Man and Sun-Tao from the destruction of the city.[19]
Retcon plotline[edit]
In the "Execute Program"story arcofThe Invincible Iron Man(vol. 4), aretconestablishes that Tony Stark and Ho Yinsen had been captured not by Communists in Vietnam, but rather by theTalibaninAfghanistan,and that Yinsen was murdered under orders from fiveterrorists(Dennis Kellard, Ara Tanzerian, Zakim Karzai, Aftaab Lemar, and Kareem Mahwash Najeeb). Before he died, Yinsen had been coerced into implanting a "bio-magnetic receiving unit" inside Stark's brain. In a failed attempt to recover the control device for the implant, the terrorists sendhitmanAndrei Gorlovich to murder Yinsen's wife.[20]Years later, some of the five terrorists are nowdiplomats.Yinsen's grieving teenage son (whose name is never revealed) blamed Stark for his parents' deaths and takes control of the device in Stark's brain tomind-controlintoassassinatingall five of the former terrorists. Stark confronts Yinsen's son to try to prove innocence, but the latter issnipedand killed by aS.H.I.E.L.D.agent acting onNick Fury's orders.[20]
As part of theAll-New, All-Different Marvel,Yinsen is revealed to have a daughter:Toni Ho.[21]
Ho Yinsen in other media[edit]
Television[edit]
- A character based on Ho Yinsen namedWellington Yinsenappears inIron Man(1994), voiced byNeil Ross.This version worked with Professor Arnold Brock before the latter became theMandarin,who captured Yinsen and Tony Stark to build armor for his henchmen. After Yinsen builds armor for Stark so he can escape, he sacrifices himself to save him from the Mandarin.
- Ho Yinsen appears inMarvel Anime: Iron Man,voiced byHiroaki Hiratain the Japanese version and byKyle Hebertin the English dub. Similarly to theIron Man(2008) incarnation (see below), this version built an electromagnet to keep Tony Stark alive. After helping Stark escape, Yinsen survived, but was convinced by Japan's Minister of Defense, Kuroda, to joinZodiacand steal Stark's "Iron Man Dio" armor to serve him, betraying and battling Stark throughout the series. Yinsen eventually has a change of heart, but Kuroda kills him in retaliation. Yinsen then uses his last words to apologize to Stark for his betrayal and begs him to stop Kuroda from conquering the world.
- Ho Yinsen makes non-speaking appearances in the second season ofIron Man: Armored Adventuresas an old friend of Howard Stark and aStark Internationalmedical specialist who saved Tony after he was injured in a plane crash and created his artificial heart.
Film[edit]
- A character based on Ho Yinsen namedHo Yenappears inThe Invincible Iron Man,voiced by an uncredited voice actor. After being captured for attempting to dig up an ancient city, he helpsJames "Rhodey" Rhodestreat Tony Stark's damaged heart and relates the legend of the Mandarin to them before being killed byWong-Chu.
- Ho Yinsenappears in theMarvel Cinematic Universe(MCU) filmIron Man(2008), portrayed byShaun Toub.This version is a doctor and engineer from the small fictionalAfghanistanvillage of Gulmira who was captured by a local branch of theTen Rings.After building an electromagnet to saveTony Stark's life, Yinsen assists him in creating a miniaturizedarc reactorand the first Iron Man armor before sacrificing himself to buy time for Stark's armor to boot up. Stark tries to save him, but Yinsen reveals his death was always part of the plan so he can reunite with his dead family and urges Stark to not waste his life.
- Yinsen makes a cameo appearance in a flashback inIron Man 3(2013), portrayed again by Shaun Toub.
Video games[edit]
Ho Yinsen appears in the 2008Iron Manfilm tie-in game, voiced by Shaun Toub. Unlike in the film, this version sacrifices himself to prevent the Ten Rings from acquiring Tony Stark's notes on the Iron Man armor and the ammunition that was stored with them.
Ymir[edit]
Yondu[edit]
Yon-Rogg[edit]
Dale and Stacey Yorkes[edit]
Kagenobu Yoshioka[edit]
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Kagenobu Yoshiokais a character inMarvel Comics.The character, created by Akira Yoshida, first appeared inElektra: The Hand#1 (November 2004). He is a ninja and founder ofThe Hand.Yoshioka was the son of a samurai who lived with his single mother. When coming home from fishing, Yoshioka sees his mother about to be raped by a foreigner. Angered, he kills the foreigner, but his mother takes the blame. His mother is taken away, leaving behind a bloodied hand print on his shirt which would become his emblem. Saburo Ishiyama takes him in and becomes his sensei, training him in the ways of bushido. After training for ten years, Yoshioka leaves the school to start his adult life.[22]After three years of training, Yoshioka is asked to return to his sensei's school because of his mentor's death. He makes amends with his old rival Daisuke Sasaki and together decide to rebel against the government by forming with other Japanese school leaders.[23]The Hand is visited by a foreigner and his daughter Eliza Martinez who come to the school hoping to be trained. After turning the two down several times, Kagenobu finally accepts which angers Sasaki. Kagenobu personally trains Eliza and has Eliza kill another foreigner simply for not being Japanese. He informs Eliza of being full of anger and that is why Eliza chose to train with him, afterwards the two fall in love. Sasaki sends a member of the Hand to kill Eliza but fails. Kagenobu learns that the Hand has become a mercenaries for hire organization; realizing that his school is slowly getting out of his control, Kagenobu fights and kills Sasaki.[24]Kagenobu and Eliza fight the Hand's members but Kagenobu is slain by his once loyal students, and the grief-stricken Eliza kills herself as well.[25]
Kagenobu Yoshioka in other media[edit]
Kagenobu Yoshioka, renamedNobu Yoshioka,appears inDaredevil,portrayed byPeter Shinkoda.[26][27]This version is a member of the Hand and associate ofWilson Fisk.[28]Throughout thefirst season,Nobu assists the Hand in smuggling a child called "Black Sky", only to be foiled byMatt MurdockandStick.[29]Angered by this, Nobu attacks Murdock, but is defeated and killed.[30]As of thesecond season,the Hand resurrected Nobu, who battles Murdock once more[31]before helping the Hand kidnap Stick. Despite facing opposition from Murdock andElektra,Nobu reveals she is the new "Black Sky".[32]After she sacrifices herself to save Murdock, the latter throws Nobu off of a building and permanently killed by Stick.[33]
Yukio[edit]
Yukon Jack[edit]
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Yukon Jack(Yukotujakzurjimozoata) is a character in theMarvel Universe,a member of the superhero teamAlpha Flight.The character, created byScott LobdellandClayton Henry,first appeared inAlpha Flight(vol. 3) #1 (May 2004). He views himself as a demi-god, making references to not being a normal human. When he was electrocuted byHiro Takachiho,his skeleton showed few similarities to a normal human's.[volume & issue needed]After the series' conclusion, he marriedSnowbird.[34]
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